Category: Podcast Episodes
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AT Banter Episode 398 – Jacob Shymanski & AMI Today
This week, Rob, Ryan, Lis, and Steve sit down with Jacob Shymanski, host of AMI Today, a live show on AMI-audio and YouTube that airs weekdays at 11 a.m. Eastern. Jacob provides an overview of the show’s format, which serves as a digest of various AMI-audio programs and includes in-depth interviews with prominent voices from…
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AT Banter Episode 397 – Donna Jodhan Returns
This week the Banter gang are joined by returning guest Donna Jodhan, an advocate and author, to discuss her latest initiatives. Donna shares insights on her new focus—transition programs designed to help youth with disabilities prepare for the workforce, enhancing their value to employers. The conversation also revisits Donna’s landmark 2010 court case challenging the…
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AT Banter Episode 396 – Joshua Ang & Got Game
The summer is over and that means AT Banter returns to full strength as Rob, Ryan, Lis and Steve welcome Joshua Ang, host of the new AMI show Got Game to the show. They discuss the premise and origins of the show, which involves six youth with disabilities from all over the country coming together…
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AT Banter Episode 395 – Penn Street & The Blind Chick
Rob and Ryan welcome Penn Street, host of the Blind Chick Podcast, who shares her journey of losing her vision due to Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. The three dive into a discussion of the importance of early intervention, mentorship, and community support as well as the need for better representation and accessibility in various aspects of life,…
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AT Banter Episode 394 – SnapSlide
Rob and Ryan gather together on a Friday night just in time to welcome Rocky Batzel and Chason Sordoni, founders of SnapSlide, an innovative child-resistant closure mechanism which is designed for easier accessibility for people with limited strength, arthritis, or those with one arm, or anyone who may struggle with traditional child resistant lids. They…
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AT Banter Episode 393 – Jonathan Price & AfterSight
Rob, Lis, and Ryan take a break from practicing Olympic Breakdancing long enough to welcome Jonathan Price to the show to discuss his role at Colorado based non-profit that produces audio newspapers, magazines, and podcasts for the blind and low vision community as Podcast Producer. They discuss shared their experiences and insights on creating and…
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AT Banter Episode 392 – Disability Tour Bus
Rob, Ryan and Lis welcome Amy Amantea and her writing partner Rena Cohen to the show to talk about their new Radio Play Podcast entitled “Disability Tour Bus”. They talk all about the about how the play and how it came about, its themes, and why it is that the Arts can be such a…
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AT Banter Episode 391 – Luke Anderson & The Inaccessible Font
Rob, Ryan and Steve rise early once again in order to welcome Luke Anderson, Executive Director of the StopGap Foundation back to the show to give us some updates on the organization which works to build portable ramps for businesses while highlighting the importance of accessibility and inclusion in public spaces. He also details Stop…
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AT Banter Episode 390 – Meet The Monarch
Rob, Ryan, and Steve rise early once again in order to welcome Peter Tucic, Director of Strategic Partnerships for HumanWare to the show to talk about their innovative new multipurpose, multiline, tactile electronic Braille device, The Monarch. They discuss what makes The Monarch unique, the new technology that drives the device, and its potential to…
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AT Banter Episode 389 – LK Bowen & FOR WORSE
Rob, Ryan, Steve, and Lis gather together for a full house this week to welcome author LK Bowen to talk about her debut novel, “For Worse”. They discuss the novel’s origins, how the choice was made to make the protagonist share LK’s eye condition of retinitis pigmentosa, and the importance of representation and agency in…
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